don't read on if you're easily offended by topics of sex - what follows is how a European perceives US/American dating culture. If you get offended by the word "porn" don't read. you've been warned ...
going through the list in this article I'll more likely to fall in love with a partner willing to discuss these. There are actually several deep conversations buried within each question - and I have discussed many of them with my partner. it sounds a bit sad (not to say pathetic) to me if somebody is unable to raise these in a relationship.
maybe I'm strange, in which case what do young couples today talk about?
American dating culture and how it is propagandized in Hollywood serials is very odd to me. I spent a lot of time among Americans at work and also outside work. To me as a European having to ask somebody to go on a date in a formal way is pretty odd. Like you can't just go out for a movie or drinks with the opposite sex and see where it leads? I have never been on a date in my whole life and this article reminds me how sterile and awkward Anglo-Saxon cultures are about sex, dating and relationships.
The English basically can't do it unless they're utterly wasted (exaggerating but there is truth here!). American's can't do it unless they constantly talk about "daddy this" and "daddy that" -> what's up with this pedopheliac insinuations that are everywhere from old books such as The Great Gatsby to The Boardwalk Empire (it's not new that Americans like to call their man daddy).
If I just started making out with a woman and she calls me daddy I'd be so grossed out I'd be heading for the door. Also if you look at porn (and the US is the biggest producer here) you can see what they think gets clicks: suggestions of individual A does it with their "step-daughter" and violence is the norm. Americans can't get off unless there is violence (--> this is very different to Italian or French porn).
Generally Americans have some rather strange rules of what to ask on date number #1 then date #2 ... and then 3 months later women expect some conversation about where this is going. E.g. a couple constantly have to move "forward". I've had an American gf - her constant blubbering and her inability to just enjoy the silence together was what killed it. I never understood if it was out of insecurity that she was never able to shut up - but meeting many of the years it's more the norm with both sexes than the exception. Like they have to constantly open their mouth even they got nothing to say to remind themselves that they're still ok and to mask their insecurity.
I'm going off on a tangent but this article reminded me of all that. considering the article isn't a joke it just drives home even more how pathetic and sterile US dating culture is. I mean if you can't discuss your deepest and darkest with your SO why not just get a dog? why bother at all with such a farce?